Word: arts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last meeting of the Athletic Committee of the faculty they decided to fill the position of sparring master at the gymnasium by appointing E. J. Ferris, the well-known teacher of the manly art, to take the place made vacant by J. E. Mellen, who left Cambridge about nine months ago to take charge of a gymnasium in Rochester, N. Y. The matter has been under consideration for some time and it was not without careful investigation that the committee decided to give the place to Mr. Ferris, the successful one of several candidates for the position. Mr. Ferris...
Lecture on Forensics. Special subject : Suggestions on the Art of Expounding Abstract Topics. Dr. Royce. Sever...
...FRIDAY.Lectures on Forensics. Special subject : Suggestions about the Art of Expounding Technical Topics to General Readers. Dr. Royce. Sever...
...take the place of the unattainable statue or portrait ; to flatter is not always to falsify. Besides the Latin "simulacha" does not always distinguish between real and ideal, true and false images. Were all the busts and statues in Rome, Naples and Florence portraits from life? Art may sometimes fail to represent truly even those great men whose portraits and descriptions we have. Wendell Phillips warned his descendants not to be beguiled by Boston statues. If John Winthrop could come back and see the mass of metal representing himself on Scollay Square, what would he think? Remember however, that...
...FRIDAY.Lectures on Forensics. Special subject: Suggestions on the art of persuasion, i. e, On argument that is meant to influence conduct. Dr. Royce. Sever...